How To Post A Photo In A PM?
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Now that I am retired, I no longer have time to futz with desktops and laptops. I am on my third tablet, a 2019 basic iPod, and $300 or $400 every few years to get a new one to read stuff on the web is a heck of a lot less than I spent on the inevitable, endless and frequent upgrades that as often as not caused as many problems as they supposedly solved. Technical support was either non existent or costly, and I have never needed it with my tablets. I still have a desktop home PC but haven’t had occasion to even turn it on in over three years.
This is what I see when posting on a thread:
I can add a picture by either using the attach files button beneath the text entry box, or clicking on the picture icon in the toolbox and adding a link or picture there.
This is what i see when having a conversation:
There is no attach files option, and the picture icon in the toolbox only gives me an option for URL. If I click the 3 dots to the right of this icon, another picture icon appears that enables me to link to embedded media.
It doesn’t worry me that I can’t attach files/pictures (without URL) in conversations. If however it is possible I would like to be schooled on how to do it
I can add a picture by either using the attach files button beneath the text entry box, or clicking on the picture icon in the toolbox and adding a link or picture there.
This is what i see when having a conversation:
There is no attach files option, and the picture icon in the toolbox only gives me an option for URL. If I click the 3 dots to the right of this icon, another picture icon appears that enables me to link to embedded media.
It doesn’t worry me that I can’t attach files/pictures (without URL) in conversations. If however it is possible I would like to be schooled on how to do it
Yeah, the gamut of sites one can embed from should be expanded, but I think that's up to Zenforo and not the webmaster of this site. ?
There is an insert picture icon in the editor that pops up in the conversation window, I copied a link to a picture on this site and pasted it in there, but it didn't work. I'll just keep doing the way that I have been when necessary...
I think there is some other HTML or descriptors that need to go around the information, but the tool in the editor doesn't generate it.
Below is a screen shot from my Mac laptop of a PM, suggesting to me that it could be an O/S difference, or, as said above a difference set for Mods.
Well, who knew?? 
Now that I think a bit about it, it makes sense- bad actors/folk can't gross out others or harass them as easily,
Now that I think a bit about it, it makes sense- bad actors/folk can't gross out others or harass them as easily,
Eh. I kinda get that, but I have an alternative viewpoint. My line of work, I routinely use giant desktop workstations that cost as much as a car with multiple displays and a pen display for art, with top of the line GPUs and all that.
I also have a ridiculous laptop that can power a VR headset without breaking a sweat, a Xebec tri-screen setup for it, and a Wacom One pen display for it as well.
The second I get off work, though? I power all that shit right down and then grab my iPad or iPhone for all personal computing, which I can do from the cushy comfort of my recliner. I don’t need any gonzo hardware to read ebooks, watch movies, browse the internet, chat with people, or shop online.
If I feel like writing, drawing, or painting, then I just break out the Brydge keyboard or the Apple Pencil, and I don’t even need to leave my recliner. I haven’t yet run into a practical situation in my off hours where I felt like I HAD to fire up the big stuff, and am happy that mobile hardware is powerful enough to allow me to firmly separate work from relaxation.
Well you clearly haven’t tried to post a picture in a PM then
Not strange territory to me. I’m used to Reddit, which doesn’t support directly embedding images in posts or comments either. Instead, they’re generally uploaded to Imgur and then linked to in the message body, so if I had to put an image in a PM for whatever reason, I would just upload it to Imgur or my own server and drop a link in the PM. I can do both easily on mobile. ?Well you clearly haven’t tried to post a picture in a PM then
Some time ago when writing pm I asked Kevin G. about the problem. He gave me the same explanations mentioned above. But no explanation worked for me. (no direct upload possible like I can do in normal threads). I used a tablet (android). But I didn't try my laptop (windows). Thank you for testing this, olkofri!
I can't post pictures to PM's either. I just figured that was to prevent me from sending everyone dick pics. 
I think that only mods/admins can post most pics in pm's. It may have to do with some anti-spam setting to stop people from spamming things through pm's.
I do believe that if you post it to the site in a thread, then you can pull that photo location into a pm, but I may be wrong.
I do believe that if you post it to the site in a thread, then you can pull that photo location into a pm, but I may be wrong.
It could be done since uploading it to the site generates a URL for the pic: post on a thread, right-click on pic, choose View Image..., hit F6, copy pic's URL, go back to the PM and paste in the Picture URL field.
In a sense it's OK not to be able to upload photos to the site database from a PM: sometimes we'd want images to remain private and not be part of the PipesMag's database. Then again, the link to the pic retains a relational property in the DB, so ?
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